Mexican Tacos

My son, Nehal relishes his favorite Mexican snack – tacos and I set myself the task of preparing home made taco shells right from scratch using corn tortillas, loaded with a delicious paneer-vegetable-baked beans filling as a tea-time snack and use the left over tortillas to prepare enchilada casserole for dinner. The tacos I prepare at home are Mexican inspired and are no where authentic.:).

Its a simple recipe but does call for quite a bit of preparation work. First I prepared the corn tortillas, the recipe of which I had blogged earlier, and used these tortillas to prepare taco shells, using a taco mould. I bought a very convenient custom made aluminium taco mould/maker with a long wooden handle for Rs.120 (approx $ 2.70) from a cookware store in Vizag.

1 Saute the mixed vegetables in olive oil for 2-3 mts. Next add the grated paneer and saute further for a minute. Turn off heat and cool.2 Combine the sauteed vegetables-paneer, tomatoes, salt and pepper/red chilli flakes. Filling is ready.

3 To prepare the tacos, roll out corn tortillas into small rotis or approx 6″ in diameter. Use a fork to prick lightly on the rolled out tortillas.4 Heat enough oil for deep frying in a heavy bottomed vessel. Once hot, slide a tortilla into the oil and immediately place the bottom of the taco mould on the center of the tortilla and press gently into the oil and hold for 12-15 secs. You will find that the tortilla takes the shape of the mould and forms a cup.

5 Remove the mould and cook the shell all over till golden brown. Drain and remove. Prepare with the rest of the tortillas.

6 Now fill the taco shells with 2 tbsps of the paneer-vegetable filling. Top with a tbsp of baked beans followed by a tbsp of salsa, a tbsp of sour cream and garnish with parsley. Crunchy crisp tacos with a delicious filling are ready to be devoured!

Note:

You can use any type of filling – vegetables or meat based and top with cheese.

Sailu

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Murali

Photos are very interesting, easy to understand how you cooked

http://kitchenmishmash.blogspot.com Mishmash!

More than the dish and the photo, this time I am amazed at the effort u have put in for making them !!!!! All home made ingredients !!! Salute u , dear !!!!

http://www.thespicecafe.com Coffee

Thats a wonderfully easy way of making tacos!!!!….Your presentation is awesome Shailaja 🙂

Padmalata

Nice tempting photos of tacos…Thats really wonderful tool to make tacos at home..we generally buy those here readymade…but yours look so easy way of doing tacos.

http://andhraspicy.blogspot.com Jyothi

Hi Sailu,

Your tacos looks yummy and beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing…:-)

http://neivedyam.blogspot.com/ Sharmi

hey nice to know about that custom made taco mold. looks nice and gives me some ideas too. very simple yet innovative. the taco plate looks really tempting. I am sure Nehal must have enjoyed it.

hugs
sharmi

http://bongcookbook.blogspot.com sandeepa

OMG Sailaja…I am telling you just go and open that restaurant in Vizag and before that take out a patent on those moulds. Did you design them yourself ?

No, I didn’t design it, Sandeepa.:). My friend got one from Kolkotta and based on that mould, this particular one was custom made locally.

http://www.aayisrecipes.com shilpa

You have some patience Sailu. Loved to read abt taco shells. I would not have even attempted making these when I was in India. Now I don’t make it bcos I get ready made :). Your pictures have made me think about it. Thanks dear.

Damini

Those are some cool pictures and i love the recipe. I usually do the taco shells by putting the tacos in the muffin plate and bake them … i guess i do not have patience like you. Great job.

http://www.talimpu.com anusharaji

wow sailaja garu

that looks stunning
everything from scratch
gosh u have loads of energy 🙂

http://spicyandhra.blogspot.com padmaja

u are unbelievable, sailu!
where did u get that idea from? u are so creative and i was wondering how u got that shape when i just saw the picture!!i can only say that u are an amazing mom!!

lovely recipe.all the more, to prepare at hme with the home ingredients,is great.thanx for sharing a wonderful recipe with us.

Chandana

Hi Sailu,

Your recipe blog’s amazingly huge…

I find a wide variety of recipes…

Thank you for taking the effort.

I’m a big fan of moong dal snack.. I read it somewhere online which said the dal must be soaked overnight with lots of soda and fried next day in oil..

But they’re not crisp… They are a bit hard on the jaws..

Could you tell me where I went wrong? Probably the soda soiled them?Could you mail me your reply?

minal

looks sooooo tempting.
hats off to you

Archana

Hi Sailu

I chanced upon your site yesterday while looking for a baingan recipe. I must say that I am very impressed with your lovely recipes, your creativity and the spotless pictures. I agree with some of the other reviewers, please go open that restaurant, write a cookbook and hey what the heck maybe someday your own cookery show. I love experimenting with new recipes and I have tried 3-4 recipes from your blog over the last 2-3 days.

Happy Cooking !
Archana

http://rupasivanarayana.wordpress.com/ Rupa

hey ,
I recently moved to vizag…can you tell me where do you get this taco mould and also some nice departmental stores …..I am currently shopping at Karachiwala in siripuram….